Pentagon Brags: US Troops Killing More ISIS Leaders Than Ever

During a visit to the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil, Defense Secretary Ash Carter did something US officials generally aren’t supposed to do, discussed what all those US ground troops in Iraq and Syria are actually doing in those country, as nominally “non-combat” forces.

The answer, it turns out, is killing a lot of people. Carter bragged during his speech in Irbil that US special forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria are killing an ever-growing number of ISIS leaders, claiming the “high-value targets” might’ve launched attacks abroad.

Carter did not elaborate on exactly how this happened, but Pentagon officials have previously presented special forces as merely “trainers” and “advisers” helping to prepare the Iraqi military and Kurdish factions to engage in their own fights against ISIS, and insisted they are purely “non-combat.” in nature.

Carter said attacks on Mosul would add to the number of “mid-level” leaders within ISIS the US has managed to kill, though previous reports have suggested much of the group’s real leadership fled the city some time ago. Once again, however, the official narrative is that the US forces around Mosul are purely non-combat, and that everything that happens there will be the Iraqi military’s doing.

3 thoughts on “Pentagon Brags: US Troops Killing More ISIS Leaders Than Ever”

Ever since killing Bin Laden was such a public sucess — there has been an inflation of killing leaders. But in spite of that Al-Qaeda us stronger then ever — holding East Aleppo om.ng with many other CIA armed groups that basically turned the weapons and joined Al-Qaeda. So Russians are trying to get population held hostage out of there while our Government is apparently supporting Al-Qaeda and insists that the population of Aleppo loves them and just does not want to come out! With all the ISIS leaders being killed — why is ISIS now in over thirty countries? Magic carpet? And acter yesrs of supposedly bombing ISIS in Syria — Raqqa has not seen one bombing raid yet. In spite of being out in the desert unprotected. All that happened is actual protection for ISIS — as Syrian Airforce is not allowed to fly there.

Has this strategy proven itself effective? Who would we ask, out military leaders haven’t won this type of war in 100 years. I would suggest they are not the experts. I remember when OBL was whacked and everybody was happy happy, I was surprised clearly by that time he war irrelevant alive or dead nothing would change.